KOOROSH

منشور کورش بزرگ

چطور ممکن است ما همان ملتی باشیم که امثال کورش را بدنیا هدیه کرد وقتی امروز یک بسته لواشک را هنوز بلد نیستیم چگونه بسته بندی کنیم؟

28-Oct-2008 (19 comments)
بمناسبت بزرگداشت روز کورش کبیر که امسال بخاطر نزدیکی آن با روز Halloween ما هردو را با هم جشن خواهیم گرفت که خرجمان کمتر شود، خواستم در مورد "لوحه کورش" که به آن "سیلندر کورش" نیز میگویند قدری با هم صحبت کنیم. اخیراً حتماً با خبر شدید که یک خبرنگار نشریه اشپیگل آلمان بنام شولتز نقل قول کرده بود از قول تاریخشناس آلمانی کلاوس گالاس که او هم به استناد به گفته های یک استاد تاریخ دیگر آلمانی بنام جوزف وایزهوفر ادعا میکند که بله "کورش، یک پادشاه دوران امپراطوری ها و کشور گشائی ها نمیتواند اولین منشور حقوق بشرو آزادی ادیان را شخصاً صادر کرده باشد چون او شاه کشوری بوده که مردمش از ترس باید پای او را میبوسیدند"، و اضافه میکند که "این یک دروغی است که محمد رضا شاه در 1971 در جشنهای دوهزارو پانصد سال شاهنشاهی علم کرد!" >>>

AMBASSADOR

خانم سفیر

درگذشت خانم سفیر، مهرانگیز دولتشاهی

28-Oct-2008
خانم مهرانگیز دولتشاهی، خواهرزاده صادق هدایت و اولین زنی که در ایران سفیر شد، در سن نود یک سالگی به دنبال یک بیماری طولانی درگذشت. مهرانگیز دولتشاهی متولد سال ١٢٩٦ در اصفهان است. خانم دولتشاهی در سال 1354 یه مقام سفیری منصوب شد و به دانمارک رفت و تا زمان انقلاب در همین مقام بود. مهرانگیز دولتشاهی تنها اولین و زنی است که در تاریخ ایران به مقام سفیری نائل شد. پس از انقلاب مهرانگیر دولتشاهی ساکن پاریس شد و در طول اقامت سی ساله اش در پاریس "انجمن فرهنگ ایران" که یکی از قدیمی ترین و معتبرترین انجمنهای فرهنگی ایرانیان است را بنیانگذاری کرد. او با گذاشتن جلسات سخنرانی برای پژوهشگران و فرهنگ دوستان ایرانی، فعالیت های فرهنگی خود را پیگیری می کرد. مهرانگیز دولتشاهی در سال 1997 از طرف "بنیاد پژوهش های زنان" به عنوان "بانوی برگزیده سال" در پاریس مورد تقدیر قرار گرفت. کتاب "جامعه، دولت و جنبش زنان ایران" 1381 یکی از آخرین آثار خانم دولتشاهی است.>>>
irannostalgia.com
28-Oct-2008 (one comment)
Some notes that came up while trying to plan a trip to India.

 

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SCE Campaign
28-Oct-2008 (2 comments)
Reza Alinejad could soon be the 7th minor to be executed this year in Iran >>>
Mahasti Shahrokhi
28-Oct-2008
"نیشترهای اندیشه" فیلم کوتاهی در یادبود اردشیر محصص کاریکاتوریست مشهور ایرانی است که با تفسیر و بازگویی خاطرات جواد مجابی از اردشیر محصص، در کنار تصاویری از کارهای اردشیر محصص ساخته شده است.  >>>
Darius Kadivar
28-Oct-2008 (38 comments)

We have all had our share of insults, threats and quarrels on this site. We have all been mean or unjust depending our point of views especially when it comes to politics.

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ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON OBAMA!

Darius Kadivar

Neo Nazi Skinheads 'planned to kill Obama'

bbc
recommended by Darius Kadivar
28-Oct-2008 (3 comments)
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CIA golden boy

Fred

Iran, a Rising Star That’s Now Too Powerful to Ignore

NY Times / Elaine Sciolino
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28-Oct-2008 (2 comments)
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Maryam Baaji
28-Oct-2008 (3 comments)
Third installment of the “Best of Iranian.com” project pre-2007 selections >>>

ART

Book of dreams

Book of dreams

Paintings

by Aida Foroutan
27-Oct-2008 (5 comments)

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hooshie
27-Oct-2008 (one comment)
Amir Taheri strikes again >>>
hooshie
27-Oct-2008 (9 comments)
The 3rd anti-Christ? >>>

SUGGESTION

Remove sanctions

Iranian middle class will make Iran more internationally-friendly. Sanctions will not.

27-Oct-2008 (11 comments)
Please allow me to make a couple of possibly radical points, and then explain myself. First, sanctions help the Iranian government. Second, removing sanctions against Iran will actually be a more powerful tool to creating an internationally-friendly Iran. Essentially the purpose of sanctions is economic isolation. That step seems to work. But proponents of sanctions think that economic isolation leads to governmental weakness. But we don't see this happening in Iran. Why not? Generally speaking in Iran today, we have two very identifiable camps: religious poor and connections-heavy elite. I call the elite "connections-heavy" because Iran lacks a solid rule of law, and therefore, many individuals who reach economic success in Iran do so through their connections>>>

TOUCHED

Goli's Story

Kisses, kisses, and kisses landing everywhere

27-Oct-2008 (95 comments)
“Hey, hot date tonight?!” Her co-worker asked her in the mirror, as she washed her hands in the office bathroom sink, while Goli finished putting on her makeup at 5:30. “Heeh, no, not really. He’s just a friend.” She said. Her co-worker asked “Anyone special?” She said “Well, yes.” checking her reflection in the mirror. “I think he’s very special. He is a guy I have known for a while. He is a friend I met through a group of my sister’s friends. Later I started working with him on some volunteer projects having to do with ‘No War On Iran.’ I have been really attracted to him for a while and we have so much in common, but I’m not sure he’s interested in me. He has never said or done anything, always friendly and polite>>>

FICTION

Lily's Magnolia

There was no more room for Lily to stand by her tree

27-Oct-2008 (9 comments)
Lily Flower had never worked in her life. She was the last member of Flower family, well-known in Hustonville, Tennessee. At ten, her parents called her their little genius. She could sing the most difficult tunes and play the most complex songs on piano. At sixteen she dreamed of being a famous actress. But her parents died in a car accident and she inherited their fortune at twenty-four. Once the time of her grieving was over, she sold everything, left her hometown and moved to New York. She lived in a luxury house at Soho for the first six years, but the day she realized nobody had ever recognized her talents - excepted for her parents- she moved to this apartment building. Santa Fe Apartments, 43210 Stone Ave. “No pet allowed”. The concierge told her on the first day she moved in. But she didn’t care. Young and hopeful, “I’m going to get married,” she had thought. “Who needs a pet?”>>>